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left-align, right-align, or rotate graphical elements.
The toolbar buttons only represent a selection of the formatting options for each element. There
are no toolbar buttons to change an element's margins, or to add a border to it, for example. To
access all formatting properties of an element, you have to open the Formatting dialog. There
are two ways to do this:
l Right-click the element and select the type of element on the shortcut menu.
l Select the element (see "Selecting an element" on page166) and select the type of
element on the Format menu.
See "Styling and formatting" on page238 for more information about the formatting options.
Format elements via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
It is highly recommended to use style sheets in templates right from the start. Even more so if
the communications are going to be output to different output channels, or if they consist of
different sections (for example, a covering letter followed by a policy). Using CSS with
templates allows a consistent look and feel to be applied. A style sheet can change the look of
multiple elements, making it unnecessary to format each and every element in the template,
time and again, when the company's layout preferences change. See "Styling templates with
CSS files" on page239.
Barcode
In PrintShop Mail Connect Designer, you can add a variety of barcodes to your template. The
supported Barcode types include 1d barcodes (the striped ones) and 2d barcodes (encoded
horizontally and vertically).
Adding a Barcode
Note
When generating Print output, you can add extra barcodes and OMR marks. The reason why you
would do this, is that at merge time more information is available about the actual output document.
The page count, for example, is not available at design time.
To add barcodes and OMR marks on the fly when generating Print output, select File > Print and
check the option Add additional content (see "Page breakdown" on page568) in the Print
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